James Mize was born and raised in the US, but Jonathan Gregg was born and raised in the UK. They married in London but have lived in the US for the last few years together.
Two years ago, with the help of an English surrogate, they used an anonymous egg donor and Gregg’s sperm to create Simone.
When the couple applied for citizenship for their daughter, the US State Department disregarded their marriage and evaluated the application as if Simone was ‘born out of wedlock’, due to the US citizen having no biological link to the child.
